What is emotion

I believe that everyone has often heard the term emotion, but we may not be very clear about what emotion is. If we want to understand what emotion is, in addition to understanding the basic concepts of emotion, we should also know the process of emotion generation and the constituent elements of emotion. We need to know the general manifestations of emotions and understand the main characteristics of emotions.

The emergence of emotions may cause us to develop various diseases, so we must focus on controlling our emotions. We can use interpersonal regulation methods and environmental regulation methods to regulate our emotions.

Emotion is a general term for a series of subjective cognitive experiences. It is a psychological and physiological state produced by the combination of multiple feelings, thoughts and behaviors. The most common and popular emotions include joy, anger, sadness, surprise, fear, love, etc. There are also some delicate and subtle emotions such as jealousy, shame, humiliation, pride, etc. Emotions often interact with factors such as mood, personality, temperament, and purpose, and are also affected by hormones and neurotransmitters. Emotions, whether positive or negative, motivate people to act. Although some emotion-induced behaviors may seem thoughtless, awareness is actually an important part of generating emotions.

Emotions can be categorized into “basic emotions” that are innate and “complex emotions” that are learned. Basic emotions are closely related to the survival of primitive humans, and complex emotions can only be learned through communication between people. Therefore, the number of complex emotions and the definition of emotions are different for each person.

What are emotions

General manifestations

Positive emotions include: when shaking hands with others, being enthusiastic, sincere, trustworthy and confident. When talking, you should be relaxed and at ease, without hesitating or being flustered, and without any hostile or defensive mentality or behavior. Negative emotions manifest as: passive handshake when meeting someone for the first time. Keep too far away when making contact. Not paying much attention to the other person's conversation, and doing other things absent-mindedly while the other person is speaking. During conversations, there is more mutual suspicion and vigilance than understanding and forgiveness.

Expression level

1. Physiological Expression

Second, external expression: facial expression, posture expression, tone of voice expression,

3. Heart expression

Key Features

1. Holism

Second, process

3. Individual Differences

Emotions make our lives colorful, but they also affect our lives and behaviors. When bad emotions arise, it is best to adjust them so that the emotions do not have a bad impact on your life and body.

1. Use facial expressions to regulate emotions. Studies have found that angry and happy facial muscles cause individuals to have corresponding experiences. Angry expressions can bring about angry emotional experiences, so when we are upset, using a smile to regulate our emotions may be a good choice.

2. Interpersonal adjustment. The difference between humans and animals lies in their social attributes. When you are in a bad mood, you can ask for help from people around you. Chatting and entertainment with friends can make you forget your troubles temporarily, and talking with people who have had happy experiences with you can arouse your happy feeling at that time.

3. Environmental adjustment: beautiful scenery makes people happy, while a dirty environment makes people irritable. When you are in a bad mood, you can choose a place with a beautiful environment. In the perfect nature, your mood will naturally relax. You can also go to places where you were happy in the past, and the memories will remind you of happy things.

4. Cognitive regulation. The reason why people have emotions is because we interpret things differently. Different people have different views on each thing, which will produce different emotional reactions. So we can change our emotions by changing our cognition. For example, when we are upset about everything, we can re-evaluate things, look at the problem from another angle, and change our stereotyped way of looking at the problem.

5. Avoid problems that cause emotions. If we can neither change our views nor solve some emotional problems, we can choose to escape from the problem, temporarily avoid the problem and not think about it. When the emotions are stable, we can solve the problem. Sometimes the solution to the problem will come to us inadvertently when we are doing other things.

Above, we introduced what emotions are. We have gained an in-depth understanding of the concept of emotions, the components of emotions, and the manifestations of emotions. We know that once various emotions arise, we can control them. The above article detailed how to control emotions. I hope the above introduction can be helpful to everyone.